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Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Sometimes, late at night on the set of 'Project Runway,' I've been known to pop an interpretive dance.

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I am better than anyone in the past, but I am saying that I may have evolved some emotions that have connected with the people that are living on the planet today with me.

There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.

Planting of godliness must be a continuous thing, however, one needs to start the planting of godliness from the home front.

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'